Aspects of manuscript culture in South India / edited by Saraju Rath.

• Superior document: Brill's Indological library, v. 40
• Author: International Institute for Asian Studies.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rath, Saraju.; International Institute for Asian Studies.; Production, Distribution and Collection of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Ancient South India (Workshop) (2007 : Leiden, Netherlands)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Indological library ; v. 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Notes: "This volume is an outcome of the workshop 'Production, distribution and collection of Sanskrit manuscripts in Ancient South India' which was organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, on 20-21 April 2007"--Preface.

This volume, the outcome of a seminar organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, marks an important advancement in the study of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts which are predominantly on palm leaf and rarely older than three to four centuries. Nevertheless, they continued a manuscript culture for around two millennia and had a profound impact on traditions of knowledge and culture. After an introductory essay (by J.E.M. Houben and S. Rath) addressing theoretical and historical issues of text transmission in manuscripts and in India’s remarkably strong oral memory culture, it contains twelve contributions dealing with South Indian manuscript collections in India and Europe (mainly of Vedic and Sanskrit texts) and with problems related to the scripts, the dating of manuscripts and India's literary and intellectual history. Contributors include: G. Colas, A.A. Esposito, M. Fujii, C. Galewicz, J.E.M. Houben, H. Moser, P. Perumal, K. Plofker, S. Rath, S.R. Sarma, D. Wujastyk, K.G. Zysk

Table of Contents

Manuscript culture and its impact in "India" : contours and parameters / Jan E.M. Houben and Saraju Rath -- On the Johan van Manen Collection : its origin and background / Saraju Rath -- A cultural encounter in the early 18th century : the collection of South Indian manuscripts by the French Jesuit fathers of the Carnatic Mission / Gerard Colas -- The South Indian drama manuscripts / Anna Aurelia Esposito -- The Jaiminiya Samaveda traditions and manuscripts in South India / Masato Fujii -- Texts and communities : the manuscripts of the lost Yamalastakatantra / Cezary Galewicz -- From palmleaves to a multimedia databank : a note on the 'Bhasa-Project' / Heike Moser -- The Sanskrit manuscripts in Tamilnadu / P. Perumal -- Indian exact sciences in Sanskrit manuscripts and their colophons / Kim Plofker -- Varieties of Grantha script : the date and place of origin of manuscripts / Saraju Rath -- From my grandfather's chest of palm leaf books / Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma -- Ramasubrahmanya's manuscripts : intellectual networks in the Kaveri delta, 1693-1922 / Dominik Wujastyk -- The use of manuscript catalogues as sources of regional intellectual history in India's early modern period / Kenneth G. Zysk.